Jane Makin

Data Engineering Manager at Tovala

Greater Chicago Area

About

Passionate about data analysis from start to finish – designing efficient tables and queries, creating customizable visualizations, and performing statistical analysis – in order to build sustainable tools to enable actionable business insights.

Experience

  • Tovala (6 yrs)
    • Data Engineering Manager
      Aug 2023 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Senior Data Engineer
      Jul 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Data Engineer
      Jul 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Arrive (1 yr 3 mos)
    • Data Engineer
      Mar 2020 - Jul 2020 · 5 mos

      - Maintained and built ETL pipelines running in Apache Airflow - Maintained and improved data infrastructure in Amazon S3 and Redshift including optimizing and automating cluster maintenance tasks - Managed code deploy, maintenance, and testing using Github and Drone

    • Data Analyst
      May 2019 - Mar 2020 · 11 mos

      - Building, designing, and optimizing tables for aggregation, clean-up, and reporting on complex data sets - Creating interactive and modular data visualizations in Tableau and Looker - Designing and implementing various analyses on product performance and inventory targeting - Working closely with stakeholders to leverage data for business needs

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Chicago
    Sep 2016 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

    - Educated and mentored 30+ graduate students in Introduction to Python Programming and Bioinformatics classes - Developed curriculum and assignments in concert with professor to integrate new libraries and tools into curriculum - Nominated for Physical Sciences Teaching Prize in March 2018

  • Machine Learning Research Assistant at University of Chicago
    Mar 2016 - Jun 2016 · 4 mos

    - Designed and implemented a project to build a machine-learning model for diagnosing Parkinson’s disease in living patients - Cleaned and collated multiple data sets from different sources - Compared and contrasted impact of different feature selection algorithms and cohort balancing methods on two classification models (logistic regression and SVM)

  • Research Assistant at University of Chicago
    Mar 2012 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    - Designed and completed honors project assessing impact of cellular changes on cancer metastasis - Assisted in writing published scientific papers and grants